Future Ben 18 Vs CharmCaster: Magical Pacts

Future Ben runs into CharmCaster.

Status: 8/8 Completed

Well, I said goddamn, I always knew tackling Ben 10 would be a herculean task for me.. truthfully this started off as Five... then Six, and finally Eight pages.
The set up just didn't sit well with me so I needed to flesh it out to at least this length.

So! Gonna move on to Desiree for tonight but I owe you guys a May gameplan first, gonna think on that while I do some sketching right now, so expect that in a while. If any of you guys are still here, and those interest in design choices, I can drabble a bit so you know where my head was at:

Direction: Truthfully, I only ever saw the OG Ben 10 series many years back and only really casually. Maybe I saw a few episodes of AF but not much. I tell you this so when I inevitably get called out for not knowing that XYZ happens in episode XXX of series ???, you'll know its because I'm a FILTHY CASUAL. 😭
So went the whole future AU route. I watch ed a couple episodes of the later series to look for plot premises but honestly, I was surprised to learn that Charmcaster doesnt appear in the whole series a whole lot... so I took a few liberties here and there, mostly I ended up watching Omniverse's Kai episodes to see how future Ben handles flirting/mean girls. (My bread and butter).

So yeah thats basically it. Omniverse art style works best with my own, it has its own charm that I took a liking to, Im even open to exploring more from it some day. Sorry to UAF fans but THAT Charmcaster... just isn't Charmcaster to me.. she looks like a generic sorceress villain from Justice League Unlimited or something... so I went with Omniverse' design mixed with some of the original's. Ben was more straight forward, I dont like his haircut in AF... I wanted him in the original colors, at least at first, I can change his outfit later.

But I liked his hair from Omniverse. So in the end I went with an mix of Omniverse and Future Ben in my art style, aged as an 18 year old, I only had a bit of time to practice the design before I had to start working on 8 pages so I think I'll try to refine it more int he future.

Absolute Unit, WTF did they do to this lad in the later series?!

Oh, and I chose Kevin and Max as cameos bc theyre a bit interesting to draw without too much effort and I didn't want to deal with the pressure of having to commit to a Gwen design yet 😅